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The How to Be Jamaican Handbook
Published in Paperback by Hampton & Brooks (01 November, 1987)
Authors: Kim Robinson, Harclyde Walcott, Trevor Fearon, and Jamrite Cultural Dissemination Committee
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He who laughs last has read this book
For anyone that has ever been to Jamaica, lived there or wants to go this book is a must read. It captures the essence of the Jamaican mentality, way of life and humor as no other book has done. Although written in 1987 it is no less apt today than it was then proving that change in Jamaica moves not at just a back pace but an almost comatose one.

The authors illustrate that one of the most endearing features of the Jamaican psyche is the inate ability of virtually every Jamaican to be able to poke fun at themselves and their country and get away with it.


The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker
Published in Paperback by Univ. of Massachusetts Press (1981)
Author: Trevor Robinson
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very good on recorders and other early woodwinds
This book covers early wind instrument construction with the hobbiest in mind. It includes construction drawings and measured pictures. I felt it was best in covering recorders. The Brass instruments were a little shortchanged. I was hoping for a later model clarinet but the one illustrated would be eaiser to build. If you are a woodworker with a Lathe this is a neat book.

It's woth it for the plans.
Any where you go the price of even a poorly made fife is around 40$ Then you have things like crumhorns and racketts. Racketts list from 250 on up and good luck even finding a Tenor recorder for less than 300 (U.S.) So just on a plans basis the book is a good investment.
It's not a shop how-to manual. The book assumes you allready have and know how to use your tools. The author provides the needed information to make simple (Renassance-ish time period) wood wind instruments. It's exactly what it says is, an amature guide and from the stand point, it's an excellant book and an excellant buy

The best reference on the subject
I purchased this volume about two years ago and finally had the chance to make some instruments based upon it. Overall the book is extremely good and it appears to be the only reference of its sort. I enjoy broswing the book and reading Robinson's informative essays on each instrument. It is an enjoyable book even if you never actually make any of the instruments in it.

I have looked for other references, but this seems to be the only one of its kind. Although there is a need for a more detailed construction-oriented manual of this type, I was able to make a quite satisfactory tenor cornamuse and a slightly less satisfactory tenor racket from Robinson's instructions.

If you intend to make instruments I would recommend that you find examples of the instrument you wish to make since there are many details that no description could adequately deal with.

My two major complaints are as follows. First, the instrument dimensions are given in metric units but the grid upon which the drawings are placed is in inches. A consistent use of one system or the other would make the drawings much easier to follow. Second, the drawings are vary highly in their quality. The baroque rackett, for example, is very clean and easy to follow, but the oboe and shawm drawings are of much lower quality.

The best thing would be a second, expanded edition of the book with better drawings.

(As one last note, if you are trying to find the "shell auger" mentioned in the book you will need to search for it from a wood turning catalogue as a "lamp auger")


The biochemistry of alkaloids
Published in Unknown Binding by Springer-Verlag ()
Author: Trevor Robinson
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Headwork Classics: Pack A: "Robinson Crusoe"
Published in Paperback by Oxford University Press (18 November, 1999)
Authors: Chris Culshaw, David Bennett, Michael Thomson, and Trevor Millum
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Organic Constituents of Higher Plants
Published in Hardcover by Cordus Press (1991)
Author: Trevor Robinson
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Organic Constituents of Higher Plants : Their Chemistry and Interrelationships
Published in Hardcover by Cordus Press (1991)
Author: Trevor Robinson
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Robert Robinson Chemist Extraordinary
Published in Hardcover by Oxford Univ Pr (1993)
Author: Trevor I. Williams
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Silver "Jackanory"
Published in Hardcover by BBC Consumer Publishing (17 January, 1991)
Authors: Joan Aiken, Helen Cresswell, Joan Eadington, Dick King-Smith, Robert Leeson, Rory MacGrath, Trevor Neal, Simon Hickson, Tony Robinson, and Nick Wilton
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The Ufaw Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals
Published in Hardcover by Churchill Livingstone (1987)
Authors: Trevor B. Poole, Universities Federation for Animal Welfa, and Ruth Robinson
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Virus Diseases of the Skin
Published in Textbook Binding by Churchill Livingstone (1983)
Author: Trevor W. E. Robinson
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